Haruki Murakami Quotes

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

Everyone makes mistakes along the way, but we learn from our mistakes.

Every time is a learning experience, and you pick up a little bit, and you learn things and try not to repeat them the next time.

I'm honest and tell it like it is. I've been around the horn a few times and learned valuable lessons from screwing up a bit. So, if I can pass off advice or make someone smile on the way to work, I'm for it.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

The wise speak only of what they know

Experience is a safe guide.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.